Wine Tasting - Wine Tours in Italy

Petra winery in Tuscany — see in the picture, is one of the several Italian wineries which hired in the last few years famous architects to designe its cellars.

The trend has emerged for the most famous wine producers in Italy to transform their cellars into architectural landmarks, by hiring world renowned architects to design avant-garde wineries.

The idea is to blend the efficiency offered by modern oenology with top-shelf designs.

In the last two years, Petra attracted more than 4000 visitors, who came to savor its wine but also to see the peculiar structure in which it is made.
“Around 20 percent of them didn’t know anything about wine and came here just to admire the structure’s design,” explained Edoardo Maggi, project coordinator at Petra winery in Tuscany. (source).

Montepulciano, Pienza, Montalcino, is one of the most famous wine itineraries of Tuscany. By driving this 40 km road you’ll be able to go through the typical Tuscan countryside and visit one of the areas best known in the world for the production of excellent wines. (See on the interactive map).

First stage: Montepulciano land of the Vino Nobile, a wine known since the 8th century AD. Vino Nobile is a dry red wine, slightly tannic and harmonious with intense aroma of violets.

Pienza renaissance jewel, located midway between Montepulciano and Montalcino, deserves a visit.

Montalcino with its Brunello well known around the world, is the final stage of this short and intense wine tour. Brunello di Montalcino is a dry dark red wine, still, with a taste warm, full bodied, slightly tannic and with a scent of blackcurrant. Ideal to accompany red meat barbeque and venison. Rosso di Montalcino and Moscadello are the other wines from Montalcino best known.

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